Awhile back we were given a couple of nice quality end tables that a couple of our girls used as night stands for awhile. When they moved on to other room arrangements, I wasn’t sure where else they would fit in the house. I knew I’d need more end tables at the beach house, but […]

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I went grocery shopping yesterday and was amazed to discover that (in our area anyway) a carton of five dozen eggs is only $2.69. I can't remember the last time eggs were that cheap. That's a LOT of protein for less than $3. In honor of that … [Read More...]

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On Sunday during church I glanced over at my 14 year old daughter. She was sitting on the pew, cross-legged and jeans-clad and barefoot, … [Read More...]

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I’m so excited to show you some photos of our home, all staged and ready to go on the market next Monday! A friend of mine owns a staging business called Graceful Designs and did a beautiful job of highlighting all the hard work we’ve done to make our much-beloved family home comfortable and lovely […]

Fixing up the old house to sell has been completely consuming lately, but as you can tell by this shot of the lovely new kitchen, it is all coming together. Here is a picture of the kitchen before, just to refresh your memory. And here is the new kitchen, complete with brand new cabinets […]

One thing after another has been thwarting me in the blogging department lately. First, of course, the move. Then it took 2 weeks to get internet at the new place. Plus, before the move one of my laptops stopped charging, and this week, my tiny backup travel ipad-ish thing ALSO stopped charging. Arg. I am […]

Happy New Year! It’s been a whirlwind 2 weeks around here– probably the craziest Christmas we’ve ever experienced. After planning for a month to close on our new house Dec 18th, we had all sorts of delays. At one point the expected close date was looking to be as late as Dec. 29th. But then […]

Way back in 1992, we were living in a cute older house in town, were the happy parents of three tiny children, and were dreaming of homesteading in the country. Big garden, orchard, chickens, all of it. When we found a 3 acre piece of land for the princely sum of $13,ooo, we leaped on […]

This is the time of year when my momma-heart wants to give my children the perfect gift. Well, truth be told, always I long to do that, but that longing is huge at Christmas. This year with all the busy-ness of moving, my Christmas gift-hunting feels hampered, what with budget constraints and time restraints and […]

I’m sitting here at 5:30 PM in my PJ’s yawning and waiting for my coffee to kick in. After last night’s work, I had a nice long sleep today. So once I get to work tonight, I’ll be golden, but at the moment it’s PJ’s and yawning for me. Hard to believe we move in […]

What with moving in 17 days— 17, people!– and Christmas in 24, I’ve been wishing I could find some bonus hours in the day somehow. Well, this morning I was granted my wish. After working night shift all weekend (and sleeping the subsequent days), this morning I woke up at 4 AM completely unable to […]

If you’re looking for some quick printable activities to occupy the kiddos while the cooking happens, check out the neat ones here at CatchMyParty.com. Have a wonderful holiday celebration with the ones you love!

I wanted to show you a sample of the granite we chose for our current house’s kitchen remodel. Our cabinets will not be quite so grand looking. But they are a white shaker style cabinet fairly similar to the photo, and we are reusing dark drawer and door pulls very much like the ones shown, […]